My morning isn’t complete until I’ve eaten a hearty breakfast, swallowed a handful of vitamins and read about another dumb idea coming out of Hollywood.

The latest dumb idea to come out of Hollywood is that someone is planning to make a sequel to the classic “It’s a Wonderful Life.”

Seriously, do the ideas get any dumber than this?

Some things should not be tampered with, and director Frank Capra’s 1946 holiday classic is one of those things. The film, which was nominated for a best picture Oscar but lost out to one of the greatest movies of all time (“The Best Years of Our Lives”), starred Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey, a resident of a small town named Bedford Falls who becomes so despondent over a serious of bad breaks in his life that he considers suicide. An angel sent to save him shows how rich his life really is by giving him a glimpse of an alternate reality. By seeing what other people’s lives would have been like without him, George learns that every life is important as long as you have friends. I’m tearing up just thinking about the end of that movie.

And the end of the movie should have been the end of the story.

Instead, some people who can’t come up with an original idea of their own want to rip off someone else’s original idea six decades after the fact. The sequel, which is scheduled for release during the 2015 holiday season, will feature George Bailey’s grandson. Here’s the twist: the grandson is not a very nice person, and an angel shows him how much better life would be without him.

Why not make the same movie, change the Bailey name and pretend that it’s an original story that “borrows” heavily from “It’s Wonderful Life?” Why go out of your way to mess with an American institution? Is nothing sacred anymore?

I never thought I’d say this, but if they can make a sequel out of “It’s a Wonderful Life,” they can make a sequel out of any great film. There should be a law against it, but there isn’t, so I suppose it’s only a matter of time before we see sequels to these classic films:

“Titanic” – In the sequel, Rose is awakened in her cabin on Bill Paxton’s ship by an angel who gives her the gift of seeing what her life would have been like if she had just moved over a few inches and given Jack a little space on her life-saving floatation device. Of course, the filmmakers cannot afford Kate Winslet or Leonardo Di Caprio, so the characters will be played by Khloe Kardashian and Lamar Odom.

“Casablanca” – An angel is sent to show Rick Blaine what his life would have been like if he hadn’t shot Major Strasser and had allowed Capt. Renault to arrest Victor Laszlo before he climbed aboard that airplane on the fog-shrouded tarmac. What Rick would see is that not only would he have been able to re-open his nightclub, but he would have Ilsa, the love of his life, by his side and he still could enjoy the beginning of a beautiful friendship with Renault. In fact, the friendship would have been much more pleasant if the two didn’t have to hide from the Nazis.

“The Wizard of Oz” – When the angel arrives at Dorothy’s home in Kansas, the young girl explains that it was all a dream and that she didn’t need to see what her life would have been like because her life never really changed in the first place. The angel points to the farmhands and reminds Dorothy how much they look like her friends in the dream, and did she really want to take a chance? Dorothy relents, and the angel shows her what her life would have been like had the tornado not hit her house, and sure enough, her life would have been pretty much the same.

“Gone With the Wind” – Scarlett is holding dirt in her hand when an angel appears and shows her what her life would have been like without plantations, Rhett Butler and the Civil War. As it turns out, it looks a lot like an episode of “That Girl.”

“The Shawshank Redemption” – Stephen King, upon whose short story this 1994 film was based, is not consulted on plans to make a sequel and he immediately files suit. He loses in court on a technicality, and filmmakers move forward on a sequel that starts with Andy and Red working on that boat in Mexico. An angel is sent to show Red what his life would have been like if Andy had not been convicted of murder and sent to the same prison. The result is so grim that plans for the sequel are dropped.

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